Orlando Pirates Vs Mamelodi Sundowns: A Victory The Ghost Will Forever Cherish

ARMCHAIR VIEW

HOPE SPRINGS eternal. That light in the tunnel continues to flicker. The championship dream lives on.

Orlando Pirates have played some massively important matches in the clubs history. In many of those, they have shown the kind of character that club chairman Irvin Khoza likes to refer to people have died for this club. And those who have given their all to help the club defy the odds, have created legacies that will outlive them.

One immediately thinks of the Class of 1995 and their epic victory in Abidjan, when they overcame a 2-2 first-leg home draw to beat ASEC Mimosas 1-0 and win the CAF Champions Cup. The double-treble teams of Ruud Krol and Lucky Lekgwathi also did some special things.

Now, I am not in any way likening what Jos Riveiro and his team did in Sundays Betway Premiership clash with Mamelodi Sundowns to any of those triumphs. Far from it for there is every reason to believe that the Buccaneers will once again play the bridesmaids role to the Brazilians in the league.